The final videos posted to Brittany Sauer’s TikTok page make for upsetting viewing. Speaking tearfully to the camera, the 31-stone social media star, who often posted defiantly ‘body-positive’ content about how ‘hot’ she felt in certain outfits, admitted with shocking candour that she had ‘ruined her life’ with food and binge eating.
And it had left her, aged just 28, full of regrets.
Brittany had been a virtual prisoner in her own home for two years, dealing with type 2 diabetes and repeated bouts of the skin infection cellulitis which had caused a growth in her pelvis weighing more than two stone. She had even been forced to ask someone else to cut her toenails, as it left her ‘too breathless’.
Yet she hoped, desperately, that it wasn’t too late to save herself. ‘I’m scared I’m going to end up in a bad place that my body can’t recover from,’ she said to her half-a-million TikTok followers. ‘I want you to know it’s not worth it – food isn’t worth your life.’
Within a week of posting the film last December, Brittany was dead.
Her death turns a spotlight on the controversial body positivity and ‘fat acceptance’ movements that have seduced Brittany and millions of vulnerable young people like her.
The past decade has seen extraordinary momentum building around a central argument that being obese doesn’t have to mean unhealthy. In other words, you can be fat and fit.
Some say this so-called ‘body positive’ approach is also putting vulnerable young people at risk by failing to point out the unpalatable scientific truth: that obesity dramatically increases the risk of a wide range of chronic and life-limiting diseases
Syl said
Dec 17 1:32 PM, 2023
It's incredibly sad.
People are so easily influenced nowadays, social media brainwashes people.
If an overweight person has it drummed into them than being fat is not detrimental to their health, they will continue eating the crap that made them fat in the first place.
So-called influencers, that are preaching fat is good, probably dearly wish they were not themselves obese, because fat is NOT healthy, furthermore, it's ugly.
Maddog said
Dec 17 11:42 PM, 2023
People have lost their damn mind.
They want to celebrate anything that's odd or unbelievable.
Fat is healthy.
There are 12 genders.
You can be a different species or whatever.
And when reality sets in it can make you very unhappy or unalive.
Syl said
Dec 20 6:51 PM, 2023
What the heck are social influencers anyway?
Online strangers with over inflated egos, who spout about what THEY like, think, advise....and their 'followers' who plainly don't have minds of their own, follow them slavishly.
What an odd world we live in.
jackthelad said
Dec 20 7:21 PM, 2023
Syl wrote:
What an odd world we live in.
I console myself with the fact we're just passing through.
Syl said
Dec 21 12:19 AM, 2023
jackthelad wrote:
Syl wrote:
What an odd world we live in.
I console myself with the fact we're just passing through.
And the world we leave is very different to the one we began in.
Progress ?
jackthelad said
Dec 21 12:49 AM, 2023
Syl wrote:
jackthelad wrote:
Syl wrote:
What an odd world we live in.
I console myself with the fact we're just passing through.
And the world we leave is very different to the one we began in.
Progress ?
I think the word progress is overused where the word change would be more appropriate.
Digger said
Dec 21 4:59 PM, 2023
-- Edited by Syl on Thursday 21st of December 2023 07:34:09 PM
The final videos posted to Brittany Sauer’s TikTok page make for upsetting viewing. Speaking tearfully to the camera, the 31-stone social media star, who often posted defiantly ‘body-positive’ content about how ‘hot’ she felt in certain outfits, admitted with shocking candour that she had ‘ruined her life’ with food and binge eating.
And it had left her, aged just 28, full of regrets.
Brittany had been a virtual prisoner in her own home for two years, dealing with type 2 diabetes and repeated bouts of the skin infection cellulitis which had caused a growth in her pelvis weighing more than two stone. She had even been forced to ask someone else to cut her toenails, as it left her ‘too breathless’.
Yet she hoped, desperately, that it wasn’t too late to save herself. ‘I’m scared I’m going to end up in a bad place that my body can’t recover from,’ she said to her half-a-million TikTok followers. ‘I want you to know it’s not worth it – food isn’t worth your life.’
Within a week of posting the film last December, Brittany was dead.
Her death turns a spotlight on the controversial body positivity and ‘fat acceptance’ movements that have seduced Brittany and millions of vulnerable young people like her.
The past decade has seen extraordinary momentum building around a central argument that being obese doesn’t have to mean unhealthy. In other words, you can be fat and fit.
Some say this so-called ‘body positive’ approach is also putting vulnerable young people at risk by failing to point out the unpalatable scientific truth: that obesity dramatically increases the risk of a wide range of chronic and life-limiting diseases
People are so easily influenced nowadays, social media brainwashes people.
If an overweight person has it drummed into them than being fat is not detrimental to their health, they will continue eating the crap that made them fat in the first place.
So-called influencers, that are preaching fat is good, probably dearly wish they were not themselves obese, because fat is NOT healthy, furthermore, it's ugly.
They want to celebrate anything that's odd or unbelievable.
Fat is healthy.
There are 12 genders.
You can be a different species or whatever.
And when reality sets in it can make you very unhappy or unalive.
What the heck are social influencers anyway?
Online strangers with over inflated egos, who spout about what THEY like, think, advise....and their 'followers' who plainly don't have minds of their own, follow them slavishly.
What an odd world we live in.
I console myself with the fact we're just passing through.
And the world we leave is very different to the one we began in.
Progress ?
I think the word progress is overused where the word change would be more appropriate.
-- Edited by Syl on Thursday 21st of December 2023 07:34:09 PM
Not to the tune of 33 stone
Fat is ugly, simple!
…. fat and happy??… I doubt it! 